What are some questions which are useless asked by HR during an interview?

The Lady HR catched that line and started asking me all sorts of question like "What if your boss is not good?", "What he give your colleagues more recognition for the works that you have done?". Every sort of related question. I tried to answer them humbly to my full capabilities. She didn't seemed convinced.

This happened to me, during on of the on campus placement of a good company (which I wont name) and it was the third company to visit our college. I must tell you that I was still unplaced then and bit tensed. I got a grouped into very good group of debators in the GD round but fortunately we did a very clam and poised discussions on the topic "Is mobile phone really helping or harming us" (I don't remember the exact words). The moderator was very impressed and 8 out 10 students got selected for final technical round. I was the first to be called for technical interview even before I could have filled the form they had given us. The technical round was great too and he was very impressed with my projects and my answers. So I was set to the HR interview immediately.

So It began with the usual question: "Tell me about yourself ?". I answered as usual and at some point in my answer I said I work good when I get a supportive environment and where the boss help me to achieve my true potential. I don't know what I said wrong there. All I tiring to do was being honest. But I can tell you for sure that I have made sure that I will never say that to any other HR interview because of the following things that happened.

The Lady HR catched that line and started asking me all sorts of question like "What if your boss is not good?", "What he give your colleagues more recognition for the works that you have done?". Every sort of related question. I tried to answer them humbly to my full capabilities. She didn't seemed convinced.

She asked me a sort of ragging question."What will you do if your boss be biased towards you?". I tried to give a very modest answer that I will try to talk to him and have a discussion on the matter or I will keep quite prove things though my work. She counter questioned "Won't you complain to higher authorities?". To that I answered I won't. She stressed, "You won't complain?". I said, "I may if things goes out of limits". But then she sort of gave a cunning/evil look as asked "So you will complain about your boss. Hmm". As you can see it felt like ragging to me. I really started getting pissed off of by that time.

Then the she asked about my family and one line I said my mother is dependent on me. So she asked me "How will you will you manage with you mother in Banglore with such income which supports only one?". I was really getting started getting frustrated. What she wants to know, how I will manage my income. I was thinking, Is this a stress test?. What I certainly felt like it was ragging.

It didn't stopped there. She asked me "Will you try to find a higher package job". I shouted in my head , Are you kidding me who wouldn't. I couldn't understand what she as expecting out of me, to be honest or diplomatic?. I tried a diplomatic answer as the previous honest answer backfired. "She asked me what will you do if you get a higher salary job after this placement?". I thought is this a real question, who wouldn't. But still I still tried to give some diplomatic answers but she stressed on the question. It broke my patience and said "I will" and later at some point I also said that "I don't thing I really would give my best performance in your company if my Boss is too bossy."

I knew I was going to get rejected with that answer and believe me I cant work in a company where people are like this, seriously I personally can't work in this type of environment.

This type of questions continued with my best friend to who went next to me. He was also very good coder and and had worked with GNU under GSoC. God he worked with the best of people out there. He face similar questions and he answered similar answers. We both are like minded.

Later we heard some Technical Interviewer saying to the placement committee that they were very very impressed by both our CV's and projects. But we both knew what will happen so out of anger and frustration we filled idiotic things in our form they gave us. One question was "Whats your long term goal". I answered "To get rich and give the money to poor.".

I know guys I should have had more patience but believe me I couldn't. I don't like people who behave like this to students just because we are undergrads and students. It was my worst HR ever and I learnt from the mistakes and then I cracked back to back 4 companies.